ORIGINAL: MinnFlyer

You will find that you hardly need to touch the rudder at all. You bank the wings with the aileron and pull it through the turn with the elevator. The biggest mistake people make with ailerons is they tend to think the ailerons turn the plane (they bank the wings) and if they want to turn sharper, they add more ailerong, but forget to add more elevator - Until the plane has rolled too far - Then they panic and pull UP (which is now DOWN) and go pick up the pieces.

Any sim will be a big help.

ORIGINAL: MinnFlyer

You can get Real Flight Basic for under $100

ORIGINAL: ATVAlliance

You can get the Clear View SIM for 40 bucks as a download. It has the Stryker model too!

http://rcflightsim.com/

Not knocking RF....it was just out of my budget range when i was in the market for a SIM. Im happy with it. Of course you will either have to buy a SIM controller or a cable to connect your TX to your PC. Either route will cost you about 20 bucks more.

hobbypartz.com has a SIM controller and the other cable to connect your particular TX to your PC can be found by Googling for about the same price.

ORIGINAL: jnatale3


Hey man, thanks for the link!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ORIGINAL: ATVAlliance

You can get the Clear View SIM for 40 bucks as a download. It has the Stryker model too!

http://rcflightsim.com/

Not knocking RF....it was just out of my budget range when i was in the market for a SIM. Im happy with it. Of course you will either have to buy a SIMcontroller or a cable to connect your TX to your PC. Either route will cost you about 20 bucks more.

hobbypartz.com has a SIMcontroller and the other cable to connect your particular TX to your PC can be found by Googling for about the same price.

ORIGINAL: jnatale3

Well, since my ''resolution'' this year of going from r/c ground to r/c sky, I have been learning and having fun. I have my Champ, Stinson Reliant, and Stryker Jet. The Jet I plan on using as soon as I am more comfortable with the whole r/c aviation thing. The Champ I am pretty good with. The issue is with my Stinson SR10. I have not flown the plane yet because I have not dealt with ailerons before. I bought it a week ago with the Jet because I researched them as good aircrafts and got a good deal. I have used the Real Flight before (at a friend's and I do not own it). I am not really ''scared'' to crash the plane, but I want to be comfortable when I fly. Is it worth me buying the Real Flight and will it help at all? My big concern is how much more to control is the aileron set up in addition to the rudder/elevator I am used to flying with the Champ?

ORIGINAL: jnatale3

All I have now is my Spektrum DX6i. I need the cable for the ClearView. Can I get the cable from a LHS? Also, I have a laptop i want to use it with. Will that work? DOes it plug in the USB?

ORIGINAL: ATVAlliance


Here is the cable you need then. I dont know if this is a reputable source as I just googled the term ''Spektrum USB SIM cable'' and this was one of the first links google gave me.

http://store.rcsupersales.net/servle...OR-CORD/Detail

So, if anyone has anything bad to say about rcsupersales.net ...Im sure you can find the same/similar cable from a better source.

ORIGINAL: jnatale3

Well, since my ''resolution'' this year of going from r/c ground to r/c sky, I have been learning and having fun. I have my Champ, Stinson Reliant, and Stryker Jet. The Jet I plan on using as soon as I am more comfortable with the whole r/c aviation thing. The Champ I am pretty good with. The issue is with my Stinson SR10. I have not flown the plane yet because I have not dealt with ailerons before. //SNIP//
My big concern is how much more to control is the aileron set up in addition to the rudder/elevator I am used to flying with the Champ?

ORIGINAL: eddieC


What ever happened to getting an instructor? Are people that proud/arrogant still ?

''Pride goeth before a fall.''

I'd rather let my hotshoe pal test-hop my latest speed ship, than go out 30 seconds after launch to pick up the remains.

ORIGINAL: Hossfly


Minnflyer gave you very good advice. Since I know NOT your age and if you are driving a car yet, this may not apply, however it is one informational step I use to teach students as it provides a basic understanding between a KNOWN and an UNKNOWN'

Automobile, bicycle, etc: As you drive you apply pressure to the steering wheel/bars etc. and adjust until you complete the change in direction that you desire. With an airplane you DO NOT use that technique.
As Minnflyer pointed out there is more to it.

1. Ailerons ROLL the aircraft. Such roll continues as long as the aileron pressure (AP) exists. Things happen!!!
2. Rudder YAWS the aircraft, which will result in a roll, especially with high wing, and dihedral which assists that yaw to become roll. (Aerodynamics of such omitted here.) You just need to know what is happening.

3. Using aileron, you ROLL the aircraft until the desired angle of bank is established. Given that no elevator is applied, the vertical lift vector is tilted thus the aircraft is losing altitude. If it loses enough altitude it will contact the earth and in many many attempts I have yet to move the earth out of the way.

4. To extend the lift factor we increase the elevator-up pressure to hold an increased angle-of-attack which has to be maintained during the turn, BUT the aileron is NOT maintained.

In your car you have to hold the turn with steering wheel movement pressure, to mainturn your car turn. With an airplane for a level turn, you roll with aileron pressure and remove AP at the desired angle of bank. Once the roll starts, you need elevator increasing until you reach the desired bank angle and then MAINTAIN that elevator pressure. You will hear lots of stuff about 60 degrees Bank angle requiring 2 ''Gs''. That is true for a LEVEL 60 Degree bank turn. In maneuvering flight the airplane knows not what the bank angle is, nor the ATTITUDE of the airplane nor does it care. It follows either YOUR commands or it follows the commands of gravity, existing applied control pressures, and speed or lack thereof.
Your choice!

Now you will find yourself making many slight changes in the pressure and non presure applications. While you will develop such due to the stick feel and airplane position, we don't really have the ''G'' feelings of the real machine. Yet, a close second of feel, eye coordination and knowledge of basics will come fairly rapidly to you. As you do so, you will develop everything you need to know.

Ailerons beat rudder only all to heck. Now one other hint: If your high wing aileron controlled machine does NOT have a ''washout'' built in ( eyeball the trailing edge from the rear vice the leading edge and check for a slight UP twist. ) just roll your ailerons about 2-3 degrees up. It works much better as it decreases adverse yaw a whole lot.

Best of Luck and Knowledge to you.

Welcome to the new RC PLANE hobby.

ORIGINAL: flycatch

This person is a troll, nothing more and nothing less.

ORIGINAL: jnatale3

Well, since my ''resolution'' this year of going from r/c ground to r/c sky, I have been learning and having fun. I have my Champ, Stinson Reliant, and Stryker Jet. The Jet I plan on using as soon as I am more comfortable with the whole r/c aviation thing. The Champ I am pretty good with. The issue is with my Stinson SR10. I have not flown the plane yet because I have not dealt with ailerons before. I bought it a week ago with the Jet because I researched them as good aircrafts and got a good deal. I have used the Real Flight before (at a friend's and I do not own it). I am not really ''scared'' to crash the plane, but I want to be comfortable when I fly. Is it worth me buying the Real Flight and will it help at all? My big concern is how much more to control is the aileron set up in addition to the rudder/elevator I am used to flying with the Champ?